The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


been copyrighted in twelve different languages,
IN one district of Algeria $4,000 gall ons of
grasshoppers' eggs have been collected and
burned this year.
JUSTICE FIELD. of the United States Supreme
Court, thinks the division of California into two
States is sure to occur.
CHILD in Michigan has picked with her own
hand and pasted on cardboard and exhibited at
church fair 2 125 specimens of four-leaf clover.
ELLEN TERRY dyes her hair yellow and she is
trying to wash the wrinkles out of her face,
female correspondent declares, who has been
looking at her.
THE late Mrs Martha McFadden of Pttsburg.
a direct descendant of John Alden in the
sixth generation. and possessed the snuff-box
used by that famous wooer
Mr.. GLADSTONE. who is the least vain of old
men, has had looking glass presented to him
by severed hundred Liberals who desired be
.s@ou1d possess "a gift to gle u.s.. in real earnest.
A WITTY cync once eplying to the argument
that the Popes had several times been mani
testify in error. asked: What is the good of be-
ing nfallible If you cannot afford to be wrong
sometimess Anybody can be right"
CoNvIcTs in the Nashville prison to the num-
Der of over 400, have united in appeal to the
people of Tennessee to adopt the prohi bitory
amendment, and the chaplain of the institution
certifes that the petition is the voluntar work
of the convicts.
GOVERNOR BARTLETT, of California, is very
sick His trouble began more than year
ago with e large carbuncle. While still weak
from the effects of that he went into the cam
paign for the eovernorship and quite wore him.
self out. He is suffering from serious
kidney disorder.
THE late Siguor Depretis, Prime Minister of
Italy. was married at the age of sixty-three to
lady many years his junior. But his domestic
life was always singulary happy. He left one
educated
fully cared for by King Umberto, Depretis hav
ing died poor man.
STAMP collectors will be pleased to know that
the United States law against the manufacture
and sale of counterfets is much more thorough
" executed than that of England. In Germany
the manufacture of spurious stamps Is pursued
with impunitv, and it is from that country that
nearly all the bogus prints found here have
come.
Ex-senator Bruce, of Mississippi has been
lecturing for a year ''He entered the lecture
field =" saws the New York Freeman Negro or
GAM s'on a suggestion of the late Henry Ward
Beecher. He found the work very congenial.
and his success has been all that he and his
friends could have desired" His present resi-
dence is in indianapolis.
A SOCIETY called 1.-THE Indirect Vegetarians'
has been organized at Madras, the members
binding themselves by terrific penalties only to
''eat the meat of such animals as live vege-
table food" and they pledge themseve
tinue such abstinence throughout their lives, ex-
cept under medical advice it should be thought
necessary to do otherwise.
THE Rev. Father Cronin, of Buffalo, who has
Just returned from England. has this to say of
the House of Commons and the House of Lords:
"Such difference there Is. The Commons has
all the intellect / went to the House of l. ords
and found plump well-fed men, doing and Cd
ding and taking but little interest in anyth ing
except it might be on question of judicial
rents"
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complete report of his journey to Egypt and In
dla, which he undertook four years ago at the
instance of the German government, and which
resulted in the discovery of the cholera bacillus.
His assistant and travelling companion. DIR.
Gaffky, who occupies a prominent position
in the sanitary bureau of the empire, will edit
the report.
DURING the late election campaign some wag
made travesty oe "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. HYDE"
applying it to Sir George Otto Trevelyau. That
gentleman had never read the popular romance.
and not recognizing the parody grew indignant
over it and replied TO it in public speech. A
Tory journal now argues that man SO ignorant
of current literature is unfit to write books and
is swell into Parliament"
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is about forty years of
age and worth certainly $50, 000. 900, perhaps
1926, 000 000 He is a tremendous worker, and
his friends fear he is injuring his health by his
assiduous attention to the details of his bust
ness. 1t seems strange to think of man work
ing himself sick when he already has larger
income than he can by any possibility get rid
of. Human nature is queer thing.
A SON OF the recent great Rachel has recently
died in the interior of Africa. He was lieuten-
ant in the French navy and distinguished him
self by his bravery in the of 1870. When
Rachel was in this country a church dignitary
asked her in what faith were her children being
educated, lin the religion of their fathers was
the ambiguous reply. Our pious bishop re-
strained his curiosity for further information.
A WELL KNOWN German philanthropist. Herr
Gustav Werner. died recently at Reutlingen.
Wurtemberg at the age of seventy-eight He
was the founder os an institution near that city
for the rescue OF the poor and degraded of both
sexes, which now possesses extensive proper
~. including several industrial establish
ments whose employees are given opportunities
to accumulate savings. The institution Ia